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Forum: General Talk
02-11-2024, 05:03 AM
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Alcohol may have contributed, but the vessel itself floated solely upon water. Mind you, apparently during Prohibition, many gallons of alcohol were tipped down drains, so much of this must have reached rivers or the ocean ...
And no, I have never served in any of the armed forces in any country (and, to quote Tom Lehrer 'I am not now, nor ever have been, a member of the Boy Scouts of America'.)
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Forum: General Talk
12-25-2023, 04:50 AM
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The Q-7 with 08 Wide zoom is much smaller and lighter than the equivalent wide angle APSC or full frame lens alone. My K-3iii with the 150-450 or DA*300 and Q-7 to quickly cover any close or wide needs without putting away the big lens rig.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-18-2023, 10:20 PM
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One more from skiing with Luna over the weekend
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
12-12-2023, 05:23 PM
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Vienna
Often I take pictures of signs to document my travel... but sometimes the sign itself is drawing attraction.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-06-2023, 12:25 AM
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I always shy away from thinking of any of my images as art, though I do think carefully about many of them and try to add something extra. Deciding which ONE is difficult as this takes many forms, some of which some people will agree with and others which others will agree with - this one certainly had a lot of artifice and intentionality to it, even if slightly tongue in cheek.
 Ballenesque by Graham Hobbs, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-24-2023, 01:50 PM
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After Skippy died in June, I knew I was going to get another dog eventually. I just wasn't sure when. Well, the day came two weeks ago. I took an afternoon off of work and visited one of the two Maricopa County shelters. This county is bigger than several states, and even some countries (such as Wales). The two shelters process nearly twenty thousand animals a year, or more than fifty every single day.
They have so many hundreds of dogs, I deliberately put off looking at the listings on the county website until the morning before I visited the shelter. Otherwise I could spend weeks obsessing over it. I picked one out who caught my eye and sounded promising. Sixty-one pounds, one year old, ambiguous shepherd mix. She had been at the shelter for just over a week, after they picked her up as a stray on Halloween. When I gave her ID number to the front desk and they brought her out to a meeting pen, I could not believe how calm she was, a near-puppy who had spent the last week in what must be a madhouse of an animal shelter. She was comfortable and easy on the leash with the handler she had never met before. She gave my face one lick (she smelled terrible) and calmly explored the outdoor meeting area. They spayed her the next morning, and I brought her home that afternoon.
At first, she was hurting from the surgery, and afraid of Tasi. She was not housetrained. She refused to do stairs, and I live on the third floor. Her energy returned long before it was safe to let her run around, and she chewed my shoes, my couch, magazines, boxes... just about anything she could get her jaws on. She still smelled awful, and bathing is not allowed until ten days after surgery. We walked for hours each day, and she still had more energy.
We finally started going to the park after a week, a little earlier than recommended, but she just had so much energy! She was frightened of the other dogs for all of five minutes, and then she was running around, having a blast.
The shelter identified her as a Rhodesian ridgeback / German shepherd mix, which seemed plausible enough to me, at first. I abruptly stopped believing it this morning after a fifth person independently told me that she looked like "one of those Belgian... somethings." Her generally calm demeanor threw me off at first - Malinois are absolute fireballs - but she does look - and act - a lot like a Belgian Malinois. Not purebred, for sure, but her lithe build, shorter hair, wide-set eyes, and complete lack of a black saddle all point more towards a Belgian, rather than a German, shepherd. As for the alleged ridgeback heritage, she has the super-short hair and whip tail, but those dogs are even more muscular than German shepherds. She's no lion hunter.
The shelter had given her the name "Magic," which just didn't work for me. I asked my sister for help - she's far better at this kind of thing than I am - and we chose the name Tiramisu, or Tira for short. Because she's so sweet.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-24-2023, 01:54 PM
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Here's my photo assistant. He is able to detect the lack of subjects, then poses for me.
Kawai by Jason Doss
Pentax K-1 mII Limited Silver and Pentax-A* 135mm f1.8 at f2.8, 1/500s, and ISO 800
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-09-2023, 02:40 PM
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Another dog on the see=saw at Muddy Paws. Something about this particular see-saw didn't feel right to quite a few of the dogs. BTW, MAX 200 supplies agility equipment to almost all of the meets where we go.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-11-2023, 01:07 AM
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Manual Priority Mode with Spot Metering. F/L @135mm.
Thanks very much for viewing. :)
Tony
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Forum: General Talk
02-21-2019, 01:23 PM
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:(
Peter Tork and Mike Nesmith were the only actual musicians in the group. RIP.
Steve
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
08-30-2023, 08:48 AM
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Agree 100%. When it starts to be difficult deleting any more, I found it helps to let the pics "rest" for a while and distance myself emotionally from them, then get back to it a few days, weeks or months later... Of course I can do it because I'm just a hobbyist and no client is waiting!
700+ photos from a holiday, I don't do that anymore. I mean I get them on the SD, but then I will delete several times until I am below 100. Not because of the PP time needed, but because nobody wants to view 700+ photos with me after the fact. Not even myself.
I always shoot RAW and actually enjoy the time spent in LR on my favorites, or on those I call the "almosts" (where the picture taken does not really match the vision I had when pressing the shutter, du to my poor technique, but I can still try to get close with PP).
The only boring part is batch editing, tagging, homogenising.
The time I spend on 1 picture on the PC can range from 10s to 1hr+ maybe? sometimes split in several sessions, and sometimes ending up with a very different result than I had initially planned (eg BW instead of colour, or harsher contrasts, or different framing).
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
10-15-2023, 01:32 AM
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I was shooting a protest march one summer. Unexpectedly, a cloud burst let loose and pouring rain fell. Got quite a few good shots in the rain. Otherwise, I'd have tucked the camera under my arm and ran (a good distance) to my car and missed a lot of those shots, which probably wouldn't have saved a non WR camera.
Every inch of clothing was drenching wet. Threw it all directly in the washer at home. Had to carefully lay out the papers in my wallet to dry. It was a hard, hard rain.
My Pentax was fine. Just wiped it off with a soft towel and left it under a ceiling fan to dry. Still working.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-12-2023, 01:06 PM
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Luna enjoying the season
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
10-19-2023, 03:30 PM
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Good morning, all. I think my neighbour goes overboard as a disciplinarian.
Last night he yelled at his kids so loud that even I brushed my teeth and went to bed.
And then this morning I was walking down the street and got hit by a violin.
Then a clarinet, then a French horn.
I think it was an orchestrated attack.
This week, I want to talk about the corners of our frames. We know that diagonal lines into the corners can strengthen our composition. But they don't even have to be continuous, they can be suggested.
By cropping the picture below (taken with the K-1 and Tamron 70-200mm f2.8) to square instead of 3:2 format, the orientation of the bike and rider implies pointing into the corner.
The tradeoff was that other things in the background are now not shown, but they were not relevant, and the picture now has more unity than the original.
If you've got some examples of your own, I'd love to see them posted in the comments below.
To finish with, there's the story of the newly married couple in bed, when the man asks his wife how many men she has slept with.
The woman doesn't respond.
The man asks again, "Just tell me, it's fine. How many men have you slept with?"
His bride, still in total silence, just stares at the ceiling.
Realizing his words were both presumptuous and insecure, the husband offers an apology, saying, “I’m sorry, I shouldn't have said that."
Despite his attempts to console her, the wife remains unresponsive. The husband, determined to bridge the gap on this great day, begins to hold her closely, showering her with hugs and kisses as a display of his affection.
That's when she blurts out, “Oh, come on! Now you’ve made me lose count!”
Find the rest of the series here: Clackers' Beginners Tips (Collected) - PentaxForums.com
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
10-17-2023, 05:07 AM
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I don't really know what you mean by you don't need movie quality!?! You need 24 fps as a minimum or it will just look weird. Anyway, here are links to mine on YouTube if you want to have a look:
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
10-15-2023, 11:51 AM
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For the OP..... the dust is on the LEFT side of the sensor when viewing from behind the camera.....RIGHT side if looking into the lens....so turn the camera portrait orientation with shutter button towards the top.....then bash away.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
10-15-2023, 09:03 AM
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I try to take care of my gear and will use a plastic bag, if necessary, to keep water off the camera and lens in heavy rain. The weather resistance removes one limit from camera usage, so long as you are mindful not to push your luck too far. I take a lot of photos by the sea, including stormy seas with much spray in the air. Sometimes you are caught out by circumstances. I was taking photos with/of a friend, not expecting a wave to send up as much spray as this, but .................................
Caught out by a wave at Westcott's Quay, St. Ives, Cornwall
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